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by away271828 5mo ago
Pretty much. In a prior role I didn't have a real job any longer but the people making the decisions for a fairly small layoff probably didn't know that. Would have been happy to have taken a decent severance package. Hung out for
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by away271828 8mo ago
I wrote a (shortish) book with someone once who was obviously much more attracted to the idea of being an author than actually writing a book.
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by away271828 2y ago
Mostly I had team calls. Theoretically had 1:1s with one former manager but with both of our travel schedules it ended up monthly at best.
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by away271828 2y ago
I reached a point--somewhat older than that--when I didn't have a real job any longer, but nobody seemed in a big hurry to get rid of me, and they were paying me pretty well. I made it through a small layoff though I wouldn't have
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by away271828 2y ago
Maybe. It's very situational. Beyond the spreadsheets for a given location, there are times in your life when you want to be able to pickup and move fairly easily and there are times when you want to be able to put down roots and be in
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by away271828 2y ago
I did "reasonably" well for a couple decades and then I did, if not spectacularly, well for a decade+ that certainly set me up for retirement. And I might have even retired earlier absent COVIVD. Not spectacular sums but certainly
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by away271828 2y ago
The other thing I see is that people nearish retirement age and are comfortable, who might have cruised on for a few years, are pretty much going: now is probably the time. Maybe do some consulting though that's tight right now. So, ma
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by away271828 2y ago
I do know various people who left a job with a former employer because they weren't happy and seemingly landed fine AFAIK. I mostly stuck things out for a bit because I was mostly retiring. Otherwise, I'd probably have done the sa
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by away271828 2y ago
Probably not uncommon. My final year at my last employer post re-organization and other changes was cold-hearted money extraction for (generously) part-time work. I was sort of disappointed I didn't get a package when they laid a fair
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by away271828 2y ago
On the other hand, you have to guard against being that person who is in a perpetual state of "Benn there, done that. Didn't work the last 5 times we tried it." Because sometimes the circumstances/market/tech ecosys
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by away271828 2y ago
I'm a bit hesitant to describe $NEW_CONCEPT/TECH as just $OLD_CONCEPT/TECH. Echoes of older things in a new context can really amount to something different. Yes, VMware didn't create the idea of virtualization and Docke
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by away271828 2y ago
For me, it was very obvious at the end. Technical but not programming. Felt like I was winding down. Circumstances were such there wasn't a lot of mobility within the company. Was somewhat disappointed that I didn't get a package
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by away271828 2y ago
Sort of does. Can't imagine it's a typical experience and makes me wonder what's so unusual in this case. There are always bad experiences with support but usually systematic tire fires indicate some other issues.
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by away271828 2y ago
Years and years ago, I got a warning because I downloaded some new series or other there was a lot of hoopla about. It wasn't something I did regularly but it was definitely a wakeup call that if I was ever going to do something alon
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by away271828 2y ago
And even a larger company I'm familiar with has been looking very hard at lease renewals and has been walking away from a bunch of them. There's a certain lip service to the energy associated with having people back in the office
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by away271828 2y ago
Getting ready to retire pretty soon and had a handle on a few very part-time things more to keep my hand in rather than to make money. Anecdotally, all that seems to have sort of fizzled away. Nothing was too formal in any case and not a bi
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by away271828 2y ago
I've been sort of burned out a few times for various definitions of same. A couple were just pretty intense phases of projects--both in tech and non-tech--where I just needed a bit of a break afterwards. The other was I was just ready
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by away271828 3y ago
Stability and long product lifecycles are incredibly important to them. They're pretty much the opposite of move fast and break things or deploy early/deploy often.
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by away271828 3y ago
One can simultaneously be impressed by the engineering while wondering if this level of custom implementation at what will probably be pretty low scale really makes sense.
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by away271828 3y ago
I've liked (often times a lot) parts of every job I've had. I've also been ready (or past ready really) to move on in I think every case.
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by away271828 3y ago
Yeah, he presumably put away a nice nest egg working at Google. It's not in any way wrong to remind others that, if they're lucky enough to be in a similar position, they don't necessarily need to work until "normal&quot
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by away271828 3y ago
"Rich" is a bit of a loaded term. But, yes, if someone has had a successful 35-40 year career in tech and has managed their finances reasonably, it's not unreasonable that they might decide to pack things in some years early-
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by away271828 3y ago
It's not 2001 but it's almost certainly harder for a later career person in particular get hired than, say, 5 years ago. I know quite a few people who presumably feel comfortable financially and have walked away from at least full
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by away271828 3y ago
There are volunteer or more-or-less volunteer things you can do but you need to find the right open source project (or start one), find a channel where people will actually read what you write and do it regularly enough, have connections to
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by away271828 3y ago
>You are planning work every now and then, aren't you? In the past, I've tried to give key people on longer-term projects I'm working on a heads-up. But I trusted them and it was longer-term. At the end of the day, I'
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by away271828 3y ago
I don't know the details but so long as its not some top secret IP, taking copies of various work you've personally done seems pretty reasonable. Good idea to do it periodically as you go along though.
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by away271828 3y ago
Companies grow and they have to change. I was at a company that grew to about 10x the size of when I joined. It was still pretty successful but it was a different company. I didn't have the freedom and flexibility, there was more proce
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by away271828 3y ago
Perhaps not popular but, if you're getting paid well, the work is tolerable enough, the grass is often not actually greener somewhere else, you have mouths to feed, maybe you're close to retiring/semi-retiring, etc. continuin
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by away271828 3y ago
I've mentored someone remotely and it seems to have gone pretty well. Doesn't hurt that they person is very good. And, yes, chat is invaluable. I still feel you're losing something without in-person (including social) inter
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by away271828 3y ago
I've absoluttely been in a position where the ground moved under me. I went from doing (based on evaluations, RSUs, etc.) from doing a very good job to bouncing around a bunch of managers and groups in roles that I wasn't really s

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